CONTENTS
1) Issues Updates
-- Health Canada’s Gambling With Our Health: Protect Natural Health Products
-- Mystery of Disappearing Honeybees
-- Kleercut, Wiping Away Ancient Forests
2) Media Watch
-- FDA’s Latest ‘Guidance Document’ on Complementary and Alternative Medicine
-- Americans Fed Up with Drug Industry Influence, FDA Corruption, Says Consumer Reports Survey
-- Debate Builds Over Drugs Companies Fees to FDA
-- Health Canada Proposes New Regulatory Regime for Drugs
-- New Logo Helps You Separate Organic Wheat from the Chaff
-- CODEX and the GM Stalemate
-- Restrictions Sought of Sale of Foods from Cloned Animals
-- Pet Food Problems Shake Industry
-- More Cat Food Recalled; US Warns Retailers to Pull Products
-- Pet Food Recall Hits Natural Foods Segment
-- Big Biofuel Plant to Be Built on Canadian Prairies
-- Canada Mulls Diluting Emissions Targets
-- Key Points in Canada’s Plan to Cut Greenhouse Gases
-- Big Blow to Radiation Therapy for Breast Cancer Part I
-- Big Blow to Radiation Therapy for Breast Cancer Part II
-- Pesticide Use and Breast Cancer
-- Studies Line Up on Parkinson’s-Pesticides Link
-- Food Consciousness: The Story of Terra Madre and Slow Food
-- Food Miles: Environmental Implications
-- Eat Local Movement Stresses Security, Safety
-- Organic is Healthier: Kiwis Prove that Green is Good
-- Consumers in Dark Over Risks of New Light Bulbs
-- Greenpeace Urges India to Ban the Bulb
-- Amid Green Living Movement, Advocates Urge Cdns to Be Green in Death, Too
-- To Make Lemon into Lemonade, Try Miracle Fruit
3) Calendar of Events
-- A Toxin-Free North Shore, May 3, North Vancouver
-- Understanding Allergies, May 17, Vancouver
-- The Infertility Cure, May 19, Vancouver
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Health Action Magazine Correction
Whoops! Our page 3 ad in Health Action Magazine, Spring 07 issue, for Nordic Living Water Systems was missing a digit off of its toll-free number. It should have read 1-888-644-7754. Sorry for the confusion.
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1) ISSUE UPDATES
Health Canada’s Gambling With Our Health
Protect Natural Health Products
A relatively new government directorate focused on natural health products is about to develop regulations that will have very serious consequences on the type and availability of natural health products (NHPs).
We need to become aware of the current NHP context and the Health Products and Food Branch “Cost Recovery Initiative” process. We must also consider the consequences before any more regulations or guidelines are imposed. Who does it serve? How does NHP cost recovery hurt natural health products? How will our freedom to choose health products be affected, because they certainly will if we do nothing?
On April 23, 2007, a handful of people from the natural products industry met to clarify the intentions of the new Natural Product Directorate in “taxing” natural products through the process of “cost recovery.” There will be “side effects” which could include death to a number of small to medium-sized companies.
More at http://commonground.ca/iss/0705190/cg190_health.shtm...
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Mystery of Disappearing Honeybees
Honeybees are disappearing across the United States, with half of the States affected and beekeeper losing 30 to 90 percent of colonies.
The problem began more than two years ago and has intensified in recent months. The bees simply vanish relatively suddenly, with little or no dead adults in or near the colonies, leaving behind the queen and a few young. In cases where the colony appears to be actively collapsing, the workforce seems to be made up of young adult bees, insufficient to feed the brood, but who are reluctant to consume provided feed. This “colony collapse disorder” (CCD) is particularly devastating for growers of fruits and vegetables, as they depend on insect pollinators.
More at http://www.i-sis.org.uk/MysteryOfDisappearingHoneybe...
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Mobile Phones and Vanishing Bees
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/MobilePhonesVanishingBees.ph...
Scientists Fear Flight of Britain’s Bumblebee
http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=12590
Mysterious Bee Losses Continue; Threaten Crops
http://www.centralvalleybusinesstimes.com/stories/00...
Taiwan Stung by Millions of Missing Bees
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/4...
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Kleercut - Wiping Away Ancient Forests
Kleenex, one of the most popular brands of tissue products in the world, contributes to the destruction of ancient forests. Its manufacturer, the Kimberly-Clark corporation, has been unwilling to improve its practices, continuing to rely on paper and pulp made from clearcut ancient forest including North America’s Boreal forest. Kimberly-Clark clears these ancient forests, essential in fighting climate change and providing home to wildlife like caribou, wolves, eagles and bears, into products that are flushed down the toilet or thrown away.
Help stop Kimberly-Clark and Kleenex from destroying ancient forests like the Boreal forest at http://kleercut.net/en/
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3) MEDIA WATCH
FDA’s Latest ‘Guidance Document’ on Complementary and Alternative Medicine
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_489...
Americans Fed Up with Drug Industry Influence, FDA Corruption, Says Consumer Reports Survey
http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_484...
Debate Builds Over Drugs Companies Fees to FDA
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?artic...
Health Canada Proposes New Regulatory Regime for Drugs
http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/176/9/1261?etoc
New Logo Helps You Separate Organic Wheat from the Chaff
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.200...
CODEX and the GM Stalemate
http://www.checkbiotech.org/green_News_Genetics.aspx...
Restrictions Sought of Sale of Foods from Cloned Animals
http://www.checkbiotech.org/green_News_Genetics.aspx...
Pet Food Problems Shake Industry
http://origin.insidebayarea.com/timesstar/localnews/...
More Cat Food Recalled; US Warns Retailers to Pull Products
http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?artic...
Pet Food Recall Hits Natural Foods Segment
http://www.naturalproductsinsider.com/hotnews/74h181...
Big Biofuel Plant to Be Built on Canadian Prairies
http://www.checkbiotech.org/green_News_Biofuels.aspx...
Canada Mulls Diluting Emissions Targets
http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=12609
Key Points in Canada’s Plan to Cut Greenhouse Gases
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/4...
Big Blow to Radiation Therapy for Breast Cancer Part I
http://www.cancerdecisions.com/041507.html
Big Blow to Radiation Therapy for Breast Cancer Part II
http://www.cancerdecisions.com/042207.html
Pesticide Use and Breast Cancer
http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/1...
Studies Line Up on Parkinson’s-Pesticides Link
http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=12632
Food Consciousness: The Story of Terra Madre and Slow Food
http://www.oacc.info/ResearchDatabase/res_socsci_07_...
Food Miles: Environmental Implications
http://www.oacc.info/ResearchDatabase/res_socsci_07_...
Eat Local Movement Stresses Security, Safety
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/...
Organic is Healthier: Kiwis Prove that Green is Good
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-03/soci-...
Consumers in Dark Over Risks of New Light Bulbs
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55213...
Greenpeace Urges India to Ban the Bulb
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/4...
Amid Green Living Movement, Advocates Urge Cdns to Be Green in Death, Too
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.htm...
To Make Lemon into Lemonade, Try Miracle Fruit
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB11752214776975...
For more current stories, check out “News” at www.hans.org.
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3) CALENDAR OF EVENTS
A Toxin-Free North Shore
Who: Warren Bell, MD, Canadian Physicians for the Environment; Mae Burrows, CancerSmart Consumer Guide (LEAS); Kathryn Seely, Canadian Cancer Society; David Lane, T. Buck Suzuki Foundation, among others
When: Thursday, May 3
Where: Carson Graham Secondary- 2145 Jones Avenue, North Vancouver
Cost: Free
Contact: 604-669-1921
Web: www.leas.ca
Join us for an evening of information on pesticides, water quality and toxins in your city, schools, homes and gardens, and what you can do about them.
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Understanding Allergies
Who: Caroline Markolin, PhD
When: May 17, 7:15 - 9:45 pm
Where: Best Western Sands Hotel, Banquet Room, 1755 Davie St. (x Denman), West End, Vancouver
Cost: $20
Contact: 604-681-2474. Registration not necessary.
Web: www.germannewmedicine.ca
Within the framework of an introduction into German New Medicine (GNM), this presentation explains: Why do some people develop allergies and others don’t? What triggers the onset of an allergy at a certain time in our life? Why does a person become allergic to a very specific substance or allergen? Why does the exposure to certain allergens such as food substances, chemicals and animal hair, cause different reactions (indigestion, rashes, runny nose, or breathing difficulties) in different people? Why are allergies on the increase?
Dr Hamer, originator of GNM, shows that allergies are always linked to certain emotionally distressful events. He identified allergens as biological “alarm signals” that were stored in our subconscious in connection with a specific original conflict situation. Learning to recognize these “triggers” and to understand the real cause of allergies is the first step towards both their treatment and their prevention.
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The Infertility Cure
Who: Dr Randine Lewis
When: Saturday, May 19, 7:00 - 8:30pm
Where: Canadian Memorial Centre For Peace, Great Room, 1825 West 16th Avenue, Vancouver
Cost: $10 per person or $15 per couple
Contact: 604-678-8600 or admin@acubalance.ca
Web: www.acubalance.ca/event
Start your journey to renewed fertility with our groundbreaking series exploring a mind-body-approach to understanding and treating infertility. At this event, meet Dr Randine Lewis, acclaimed author of The Infertility Cure: The Ancient Chinese Wellness Program for Getting Pregnant and Having Healthy Babies
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